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What It Took for Film Director Cherien Dabis to “Find Palestine Everywhere But Palestine”

Condé Nast Traveler·@ZahraHankir·6 months ago
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Palestinian-American filmmaker Cherien Dabis has spent the past year on the road promoting All That's Left of You, her sweeping, Oscar-shortlisted family epic about Palestinian displacement. From screenings in Malaysia to the Czech Republic to Iceland (where Björk made a surprise audience appearance), it's been an exhausting circuit that has also become unexpectedly intimate. “I've had people all over the world come to me afterwards and just cry in my arms,” she says. For Dabis, who was raised in Ohio, movement and restriction have always been intertwined. At just eight years old, she and her family were held by Israeli soldiers for 12 hours at a border crossing while traveling to the West Bank from Jordan. The experience made her understand that Palestinians have always been forced to travel differently, their lives constrained by siege, checkpoints, border crossings, permits, and visa restrictions.…

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